nullipotent en · ADJ
Etymology
Latin roots, Latin nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent.
- (not-comparable) Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent
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no-op · pluripotent · ventripotent · nullipotence · idempotent · unipotent · potent · fixed point · omnipotent · impotent · nilpotent